Community suitability of Lima, Peru

Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 66
84
best land · p90
88%
good land
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How each domain holds up

Legal & sovereignty 56
Governance, safety & tenure 47
Economy & cost 100
Society, freedom & health 99
Land & water 71
Climate, growing & hazards 78
Autonomy & access 59

Where it pushes back

Governance & corruptionLand tenure securityFood & forage diversity

Within Lima — 10 sub-regions

Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.

Barranca
strongest Economy & cost (100) · weakest Governance, safety & tenure (47)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 70
Huaral
strongest Economy & cost (100) · weakest Governance, safety & tenure (47)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 69
Oyon
strongest Economy & cost (100) · weakest Governance, safety & tenure (47)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 69
Canta
strongest Economy & cost (100) · weakest Governance, safety & tenure (47)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 68
Huarochiri
strongest Economy & cost (100) · weakest Governance, safety & tenure (47)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 68
Huaura
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 67
Cajatambo
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Lima
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 65
Cañete
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 64
Yauyos
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 64

Reading the land, criterion by criterion

Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.

Legal entity & land frameworkcountry B OECD FDI RRI + manual
Education & schooling freedomcountry B HSLDA + UNESCO UIS
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Land tenure securitycountry A IPRI (de jure) + Prindex (de facto)
Business & economic viabilitycountry A World Bank B-READY, Heritage, Fraser
Cost of living, labour & landcountry A World Bank PPP, ILOSTAT
Monetary & capital sovereigntycountry A IMF/World Bank, Chinn-Ito
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening

These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.

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